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A Study on Archetype in Hedda Gabler by Henrik Johan Ibsen

  • Journal of the Scandinavian Society of Korea
  • Abbr : JSSK
  • 2019, (24), pp.235-266
  • Publisher : The Scandinavian Society of Korea
  • Research Area : Social Science > Area Studies > North Europe(Scandinavian)
  • Received : November 30, 2019
  • Accepted : December 29, 2019
  • Published : December 31, 2019

Song, Sunho 1

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ABSTRACT

This paper analyzes the trait of character appearing in Hedda Gabler(1890) by Henrik Johan Ibsen. Since its release, the controversy over the main character Hedda has been in constant dispute. Various discussions have been taking place in that regard, which disproves the fact that Hedda's character in the play is so multi-character. In order to identify the character of Hedda, this paper applied the concepts of ‘persona’, ‘anima’ and ‘shadow’ as suggested by Carl Gustav Jung in the Archetype theory. This analysis is a discussion based on the fact that Ibsen’s autobiographical experience and psychology were projected in various ways, especially in his later works. As is well known, Rosmer and Solness, the characters of the play that were released before and after Hedda Gabler, are close to Ibsen's own self-portrait. On the premise of this, the main body of this paper revealed how Ibsen molded his ‘persona’, ‘anima’ and ‘shadow’ into the character of Hedda. As a result, it was concluded that Hedda's multiple personalities were expressed as duplicate images of these three Archetypes present inside Ibsen. The results of this study are suggestive in that they open up the possibility of interpreting Ibsen's plays. In other words, in the relationship between Ibsen, who pursued self-purification through his plays, which projected himself, we can find something similar to the universal function of mythology.

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